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Conflict on the Great Plains

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act
    It was passed in 1862 by congress and it gave 160 acres of land to settlers who payed a filing fee and live on the land for five years.
  • Fetterman massacre

    Fetterman massacre
    When crazy hourse acted as a decoy and lured 80 troops into an ambush with hundreds of warriors where they wiped them out.
  • Battle of little bighorn

    Battle of little bighorn
    This was supposed to bring peace, but tensions reamined and erupted in more fighting a few years later.
  • 1874 Discovery

    1874 Discovery
    This was the confliclt about the black hills which is the hills where no white person or persons are permitted to occupy or even pass thought.
  • Treaty of fort laramie

    Treaty of fort laramie
    the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • Ghost Dance

    Ghost Dance
    The ghost dance was the way for the sioux to express their culture that was being destroyed.
  • Wounded knee

    Wounded knee
    At the Wounded knee creek the U.S. army collected the sioux weapons. Over 200 sioux were killed and 25 soldiers.